Welcome back to another edition of This Week In Ethereum. Your weekly guide to the best alpha in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Top Ethereum News of the Week
The Ethereum Sepolia Beacon Chain was deployed
Tether announces plans to launch a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British Pound on Ethereum mainnet
The Norwegian Government announces they are embracing Ethereum
Their cap tables platform for unlisted companies is going to be released on Ethereum L2 scaling solution Arbitrum
Uniswap acquires Genie to allow users to buy and sale NFTs directly on Uniswap
Coinbase rolls out Polygon support for transfers of ETH, USDC, and MATIC
Stats
Total revenue for ETH over the past 30 days was $223 million. That’s over 17x the revenue of BTC 
Over 12.9 million ETH are now in the Ethereum deposit contract. That’s over 10.6% of all circulating ETH
At current prices that's over $15.3 billion securing Ethereum through staking
ETH has it’s biggest weekly trading volume since May 2021
USDC volume on Ethereum flips Tether in 24 hour period
ETH longs are now at their highest level since November 2021
Ethereum number of addresses holding 100+ ETH hits 13 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 32+ ETH hits 15 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10+ ETH hits ATH
Ethereum News
@christine_dkim releases Recap of the Ethereum ACD Call 141
ETH options valued at $1.16 billion expire
Someone paid 76.4 ETH to register pwc.eth until 2032
Etherscan releases new additions to their Watch List: ERC-721 and ERC-1155 Token Transfers
Over 4,000 new users bridged to Arbitrum on the first day of the Odyssey campaign
ENS Domains releases the first alpha of the new ENS App
StarkWare presents StarkEx V4.5
Fuel Labs introduces SwaySwap
ZigZagExchange introduces the ZigZag token
zkSync adds Account Abstraction feature
VitalikButerin releases 40-liter backpack travel guide
Polygon announces their decentralized zkEVM testnet is going live next month
The Ethereum KZG Ceremony Call #2 goes live. This is a prereq for EIP-4844
Ledger announces Ledger Connect Beta is coming soon
Galleon launches the Basis Yield ETH Index on Optimism
4 Ethereum DeFi projects experienced a DNS hijack attack
GameStopNFT releases V0.3.1 with an updated list of tokens that can be swapped using Loopring Layer 2 DEX
Vitalik releases The road to account abstraction
Polygon announces Polygon ID is live
Ethereum developer activity continues to increases with recent volatility
Ambire Wallet integrates MetisDAO
Applications for the EF Fellowship Program Cohort are open
Uniswap tops Ethereum in daily fees
MyEtherWallet CEO @kvhnuke_ goes on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss the future of Ethereum
GameStopNFT Wallet users can now top their accounts via Ramp Network with zero fees
Gitcoin creates ETH Infra matching pool for GR14
Convex Finance $CVX is live on Aave V3
Lido Finance announces the expansion of the Lido Node Operator set to help grow and decentralize their validator set
@0xGai_ of Nethermind announces Warp 2.0 is live
zkSync publishes major update to improve the user experience, increase compatibility with Ethereum's EVM, and upgrade performance on the v2 testnet
Dune Analytics announces DuneCon 2022 is coming 9/15
Swell Network announces launch of the Swell V2 Testnet
Optimism announces 1st ever OP meme competition
Rocket Pool surpasses 6,000 minipools
@Swagtimus creates StarkNet Projects Twitter List
Forbes Crypto showcases their Ethereum Forbes profile
Timeless Finance launches on Ethereum Mainnet
Loopring releases video guide on how to use GameStopNFT wallet
@LucemansNL joins the ENS Domains team
xToken introduces the Rebalance CLI
Increment announces $1.56M seed round to bring multi-currency perp swaps to zkSync 2.0
@ETHeyAndBeTChy release new comics
Guild integrates Ambire Wallet
SithSwap announces $2.65M Seed Round led by Lemniscap
YUMON is building the 1st player-owned creator fantasy world on Ethereum
Sismo open-sources the Sismo protocol & its first ZK Attester
Astraly is now live on tesnet
Encode Club announces StarkNet Paris Hackathon coming 7/18
Sense Protocol announces auto-rolling liquidity is coming
EthCC hackathon goes live
Chainstack announces the StarkNet testnet is now available on Chainstack
The Merge Updates
Ethereum Mainnet Shadow Fork #7 was successful
The Ethereum Sepolia Testnet Merge is now scheduled for July 6th
TTD (terminal total difficulty) will be released today
The Gray Glacier fork is going live at block 15,050,000 (June 29th) to push back the difficulty bomb
@dunleavy89 expects 7.1% real yield for validators post-merge
Nethermind confirms the readiness of their Sepolia nodes
Vitalik goes through the stock to flow model
Ethereum releases the Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln Deprecation Announcement
@christine_dkim goes on Real Vision to talk about the Merge w/ @AshBennington
Articles and Threads
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #21
@WPeaster releases Arbitrum Odyssey begins on Bankless
CoinMarketCap releases The Ultimate Guide to the Arbitrum Ecosystem
@0xNurstar releases First impressions on Starksheet & Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet
@HaymanLiron releases MEV and The Merge thread
@dennis_qian releases Monday DeFi Market Alpha
New Order publishes The L2 Landscape
@Paradigm_fund releases L2 report vol. 3
@CryptoKaleo releases ETH history thread about June 2017
ZK_Daily releases a deep dive to zkSync
@defiprime releases The Defiprime Post #98
Twitter Spaces
MatchboxDAO Special Hackathon Workshop Episode 1 w/ @dimahledba @henrlihenrli @mottylen & @resilient_reery
Podcasts
Bankless Is Mark Cuban Buying The Bear w/ @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState & @mcuban
DAOn the Rabbit Hole S2 E5 w/ @anay_sim @ljxie & @JulzRoze
Bankless State Of The Nation UniSwap Livestream w/ @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState & @haydenzadams
I Pledge Allegiance - Funding Ethereum Core Development and the Protocol Guild w/ @derek_hsue @trent_vanepps & @TimBeiko
BoysClubCrypto Big, if true w/ @TrustlessState
@sassal0x releases new The Daily Gwei Refuel episodes
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan & @bkiepuszewski
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